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    Default Woolly Buggers for Atlantic Salmon??

    I have never fished for Alaskan salmon, but assume that woolly buggers are effective tools. I am curious: what size bugger would you use and what colors do they find the most attractive?

    Peter

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    Our Great Lakes Kings typically get enraged over hot flashy colors (I favor chartreuse and Hot Pink), especially chromers that are unpressured (read between the hoardes). But it's far from that simple.

    FWIW: I do not use WBers for salmon.

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    Peter
    Not sure if you are asking about Atlantics or Alaskan salmon---

    Atlantic salmon will take wooly buggers. I use #6 streamers and standard wet hooks in #6 and #8 all unweighted and fished shallow in moderate flow.
    John

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    Buggers will probably hook salmon, they work for almost anything else that swims. Be prepared for some funny looks or worse - Atlantic salmon fishing is very tradition-oriented.

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    im trying them this year.

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    Grsdlnr,

    Be prepared for some funny looks or worse - Atlantic salmon fishing is very tradition-oriented.
    I'm used to the funny looks. I've converted many trout patterns to use on our friend Salmo Salar.

    Woolies ... heck yes, ... White grizzlies. Nothing like it to irritate the heck out of a salmon. Sometimes that's what it takes to get a take

    If they get "spooked" I'll go to a wooly worm sometimes. You'd be suprised how many "locals" use muddler minnows in 2,4 & 6's

    Also try the old Patridge 'n Yellow in a #6 ... weird eh ?


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    whatever works eh!

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    Mike,

    That's exactly right. Sure we salmon ff's rant that its the sport and we prefer just BEING there. HAH !!!

    Ask any of them (after a few shots) and they'll all confess that the itch gets to them sometimes and after getting skunked several days (or years) in a row, a connection would be appreciated.

    Note: when converting trout patterns, remember that many Atlantic salmon river (all of them in Quebec), weighted patterns are banned (as well as shot, and any metal on the line, leader, tippet or fly ... except for the hook itself).


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